CLOCKSS: Mandatory Responsibilities

OAIS Mandatory Responsibilities

Negotiate for and accept appropriate information from information Producers.

Obtain sufficient control of the information provided to the level needed to ensure Long Term Preservation.

Determine, either by itself or in conjunction with other parties, which communities should become the Designated Community and, therefore, should be able to understand the information provided, thereby defining its Knowledge Base.

Ensure that the information to be preserved is Independently Understandable to the Designated Community. In particular, the Designated Community should be able to understand the information without needing special resources such as the assistance of the experts who produced the information.

Follow documented policies and procedures which ensure that the information is preserved against all reasonable contingencies, including the demise of the Archive, ensuring that it is never deleted unless allowed as part of an approved strategy. There should be no ad-hoc deletions.

Make the preserved information available to the Designated Community and enable the information to be disseminated as copies of, or as traceable to, the original submitted Data Objects with evidence supporting its Authenticity.

CLOCKSS Mandatory Responsibilities

The CLOCKSS Archive is a dark archive, which affects its Mandatory Responsibilities:

Negotiate for and accept appropriate information from information Producers.

Determine, either by itself or in conjunction with other parties, which communities should become the Designated Community and, therefore, should be able to understand the information provided, thereby defining its Knowledge Base.

The Knowledge Base implied by this definition and the necessary Representation Information are described in Definition of AIP.

Ensure that the information to be preserved is Independently Understandable to the Designated Community. In particular, the Designated Community should be able to understand the information without needing special resources such as the assistance of the experts who produced the information.

It is the publisher's responsibility, not that of the CLOCKSS Archive, to ensure that the journal articles and e-books they submit for preservation are understandable without the assistance of the authors.

Follow documented policies and procedures which ensure that the information is preserved against all reasonable contingencies, including the demise of the Archive, ensuring that it is never deleted unless allowed as part of an approved strategy. There should be no ad-hoc deletions.

Content in the CLOCKSS Archive is replicated to a worldwide network of currently 12 CLOCKSS boxes.

Make the preserved information available to the Designated Community and enable the information to be disseminated as copies of, or as traceable to, the original submitted Data Objects with evidence supporting its Authenticity.